Felipe de Souza Tortato

Contribution to the development of FPGA-based measurement electronics, combining digital hardware design and verification, and embedded firmware development. Member in a cross-functional engineering team applying automation for validation and testing.

Applied research in electronic nanosystems packaging and integration, contributing to innovation in semiconductor and sensor technologies. Full development cycle of hardware demonstrators, from simulation and PCB design to firmware programming and system integration, bridging research and practical applications.

Leadership of a team of 18 engineering interns executing interdisciplinary projects for 4 industry partners, including task coordination, expectation alignment, and progress reporting.

Development of a WEB Application for automation of Heat Exchangers Design, reducing spent time for new designs, standardizing results and making the integration of many tools of the R&D area possible.

Management of multi-disciplinary projects in both traditional and agile methods, with experience using Kanban and MS Project. Definition and implementation of KPIs related to time-management to improve resource efficiency. The insights from the metrics drove process optimization and reduced time spent on low-value tasks.

Development of demonstrator systems to illustrate the use of the sensors developed by the company for its clients. This work involved tasks as reading data from sensors, processing the read data and displaying it on an interface.

Innovative program designed to offer a distinguished technical and managerial education to engineering students, through the development of technical projects in partnership with internationally recognized Brazilian companies (WHIRLPOOL/EMBRACO S.A. and WEG S.A.), and an institution of technology and innovation, CERTI.

Optimization of Market Tools used in the area to make them easier and faster to use. Development of dashboards to provide analysts and negotiators a visual and interactive tool, essential for price negotiation.

Development of new business models for introducing electric vehicle charging services in Brazil. CERTI Foundation has used these models to guide the development of the first national electric vehicle charging station.

Summer Internship at WEG Automation, being responsible for the automation of temperature tests made with capacitors. These tests include data acquisition and processing, and the control of an external current source.

Thesis: Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration to Insert Custom Logic to a Data Processing Path with Intel Cyclone V FPGA Relevant Coursework: HW/SW Codesign, HW Development with VHDL, HW Acceleration using FPGA, Multicore Programming

Exchange Student

Relevant Coursework: Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, C++ Programming for Embedded Systems, Integrated Circuits and Systems